Segmund Adam of Bavaria was the first man to invent the Ruling machine in 1800. It was made of piano wires crude as it was; it started the process of Paper Ruling. He later constructed a machine consisting of a cylinder with dish’s that rotated across a surface of paper producing narrow straight lines.

In 1835 a man named Hathaway invented a Ruling predetermined positions, an operator fed the paper onto a cloth conveyor, the conveyor was turned by hand until the paper, held fast the cloth by strings, arrived under the pen at the paint where the ruling was to begin, the operator then lowered the beam which held the pen, so that it rested on the paper and turned the crank, when the pen had completed its’ course the machine was stopped the bend lifted from the paper, the paper removed and a new sheet inserted.

In 1874 W.O. Hickok 0-A Striker established the fundamental principles of the ruling machine operation employed today, Hickok And McAdams were the 2 manufactures of paper ruling machines.